Malaria Quotes

With breakthroughs that will come over the next two decades, yes, we can make malaria in the whole world like it is in the United States today, something that we just don't have to worry about. - Bill Gates

While the Bush administration is prepared to spend $100 billion to rid Iraq of WMD, it has been unwilling to spend more than 0.2% of that sum... this year on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. - Jeffrey Sachs

What I learned was a lot of the people die unnecessarily of simple things, especially malaria. We have a project in place now where we are trying to help them to develop a malaria clinic to deal with that. Malaria causes a lot of pain and suffering for the people. We are also trying to help them to be more self-sufficient. - Angela Ming Bean

We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible. - Paul Farmer

West Nile is here and is currently a potential threat ... There's no ongoing malaria transmission in the U.S. that we know of. - Dawn Wesson

We took on as a project helping a village in western Kenya. It was 5,000 hungry people beset with malaria and AIDS. And we said, 'let's apply the recommendations of the Millennium Project in this village with the support of a private donor, because government donors don't seem to do such practical things.' And we helped them get improved seeds and some fertilizer for the planting season. That's all. Very low cost. They produced four times more food this year than last year. - Jeffrey Sachs

We have opened a hospital that was abandoned since the genocide 10 years ago and put some hundreds of patients on anti-retroviral therapy, for example, in the middle of rural Africa... We have also, needless to say, focused on whatever it is that ails the people who are coming to this hospital and the clinic sites around. And, that is everything from distress during labor, to malaria, of course to other projects. We do not have any doubt that this project will be a great success. - Paul Farmer